Hobby Update - April

Filed Under: Hobby

Tagged: Warhammer, Age of Sigmar, 40k, Kings of War, Armada

From now on I’m going to try writing monthly summaries of my hobby goings-on. It’s been a slow month, hobby wise, thanks to being in recovery¹, sick and/or busy, so there shouldn’t be too much to write for this one, I hope.

I’ll have the following sections:

• In: Projects I’ve acquired or started.
• Out: Projects I’ve “finished”.
• In and Out: Projects for which I’ve done both of the above.
• In Progress: Projects that are chugging along.
• Games Played
• Miscellaneous loose ends.

In

Dreadlord/Sorceress on Black Dragon: A local was selling one second-hand and I couldn’t resist. I have a lot of dark aelves and this model will make an excellent leader for them. The dragon is built, but only partially painted. For some reason it’s on a wrongly-sized base. Only the Dreadlord rider option has been assembled, but I have all the bits to make a Sorceress. Looking forward to getting started on this one soon.

Out

Nowt.

In and Out

Eldar Guardians: After much encouragement, I finally caved into my desire to paint some Eldar. And so, in the last days of March, I ordered a box of second-hand (but unbuilt) Guardians from Ebay for somewhat less than RRP. As soon as they arrived, on April 1st, I couldn’t wait to get stuck into them. I built one of them immediately and painted it up in a test of the colour scheme I wanted to try.

You don’t seem to see many metallic Eldar for whatever reason. I thought it might look cool and it very much does.

It took basically the whole month to paint the squad because I didn’t seem to have much hobby time. I hope May is more productive!

In Progress

Squig Herd: 10 squigs and their two herders. Had to commit hobby crime to put this unit together, but I was aided and abetted by the victim of the crime, so who’s to say if it’s a bad thing or not. I got distracted by the Guardians, and should be able to finish them relatively soon.

Games Played

Age of Sigmar: Two games, both 1000 points, finishing up my participation in the Edinburgh and Lothian Gamers AoS league².

The first was against Richard’s Kruleboyz, and did not go my way. The second was against Philippe’s Nighthaunt, and extremely did not go my way.

Warcry: A couple of post-work office games.

The first was a scenario from the matched play “Rumble Pack” used at Warhammer World events, which provided a nice symmetrical setup and objectives. I was playing my Horns of Hashut and my opponent was playing Chaos Legionaries, aided by a Slaughterpriest and a Varanguard. Despite being totally outgunned, I was able to win through having more bodies with which to control the board and win VP.

The second game was a narrative play generated leader-assassination scenario against a high-leveled Seraphon warband. Against all odds I managed to maneuver a single Demolisher through the scrum of lizards and, in one activation, deal exactly enough damage to take the leader, a puny Skink Starpriest, out of action. If he had failed my leader would have died in the following turn. A very tense and exciting match, in which I felt like I was on the back foot right up until I (through sheer luck) won.

Unfortunately I can’t provide photos of office games as we have a strict no-photos-in-the-studio policy

Kings of War Ambush: Jill and I finally got together on Sunday 30th for our first 750-point learning games of Kings of War. Turns out it’s very fun! My Ogres faced off against her Dwarfs and came out on top in both fights. There’s some rules and wrinkles³ we didn’t quite grasp in the two games we played, but on the whole it seems like a super-streamlined, ultra-speedy ruleset which I can’t wait to play more of. We’re planning to play at 1000 points next, so I have ordered a Giant, who will take up most of the extra points, and should be a fun hobby project.

Armada: I played a learning game against Kara⁴ at the beginning of April and another against Jill after our Kings of War session. It’s also a fun game, all about planning ahead and outmaneuvering your opponent. I am tempted to pick up some more boats.

Miscellaneous

While I was in Games Hub on Sunday I made the shame-free purchase of Season of War: Thondia, a very pointless supplement for Age of Sigmar. I have enjoyed leafing through it so far.